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General Resources

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Local Community Currencies Around The World

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LETS

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Timebanks

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Other Trading Systems

Events

Economics In General

Banking

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Books, Articles and Stories

• "Interest and Inflation
  Free Money" (Book)
  by Margarit Kennedy
  Money is one of humankind's most ingenious inventions - and also
  one its most dangerous. Interest and Inflation Free Money offers a clear, simple explanation of
  how financial policies shape the global markets - and how interest wrecks cultures, ecosystems,
  and economic systems.





• "The Future of Money" by Bernard Lietaer
  
  ex-Belgium Central Banker and one time currency trader now advocating global
  interest free currency.





• "The Natural Economic Order" by Silvio Gesell
  
  full text, translated into English by Phillip Pye






• "New Money for Healthy Communities" (Book)
  
  by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. The pinnacle of power in today's world is the power to issue
  money. If that power can be democratized and focused in a direction which gives social
  and ecological concerns top priority, then there may yet be hope for saving the world.
  (full text online!)





• "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE MONEY, A Non-Political? Money System" (Book)
  
  By E. C. Riegel, 1944. (full text online)
  
  THERE is a fundamental evil of which the convulsion of war is but the dramatic manifestation and of which the nations must
  be purged before reconstruction can begin. THIS EVIL IS THE ECONOMIC SIN OF ISSUING MONEY WITHOUT BACKING IT.





• "The Money Syndrome ;
  Paths to an Economic Order Free from Crises", an online book by Helmut Creutz
  
  Translated by Hans Eisenkolb, B.C., Ca. and Robert Mittelstaedt. This book is a good
  source of information on money, how it is made and used.





• "Funny Money by David Boyle
  
  This is a site about money: not the usual kind of pounds or dollars, but new kinds conjured
  maybe out of the imagination of the people who need to use it, but which are concrete enough
  to change the our disastrous dependence on a wildly fluctuating global economic system.





• "The Grip Of Death" by Michael Rowbotham
  
  A study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics This lucid and original account of where
  our money comes from explains why most people, businesses and countries are so heavily in debt. It's all
  about subjects very close to home: mortgages, building societies and banks, food and farming, transport,
  worldwide poverty, and what's on the supermarket shelf.






• New Money for healty communities, article by Thomas H. Greco
  The
  pinnacle of power in today's world is the power to issue money. If that power can be
  democratized and focused in a direction which gives social and ecological concerns
  top priority, then there may yet be hope for saving the world.





• A Market Economy without
  Capitalism, an essay by Werner Onken
  
  An overview of the basic concept, its historical origins and present state of development;
  Information about organisations promoting "Free Economy" and suggestions for further reading
  on the topic.





• International Journal of Community Currency
  Research
  The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of
  knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used
  throughout the world both at present and in the past.





• Materialien zu Silvio Gesell
  
  Deutschsprachige Materialien ~ Links and sources in English





• Depreciating community-owned currencies, article
  
  An article by David Weston on the Woergl experiment of 1932-33





• The Law of Supply and Demand
  , by Hans Eisenkolb
  
  Everybody, who thinks at all about economics takes it for granted and hardly gives it a second thought.
  Yet hardly anybody understands how deeply it controls all aspects of the base of human survival- our economy.





• LETS Engineering Mathematics, article by John C. Turmel, B. Eng.
  
  As Galbraith remarks, higher interest rates, it is hoped, "will
  curb inflation." These comments of Galbraith illustrate why, although
  the raising of interest rates is the weapon against inflation chosen
  by those who profit by it, it is also clear that as a method it cannot
  finally work. John Turmel, a Canadian civil engineer and campaigner
  against usury, has in two long articles brought algebra, plumbing and
  poetry to bear on the task."





• GOVERNMENTS AND MONEY, by Jerry L. Jordan
  
  at the Cato Journal by the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.







• Robinsonade, by S. Gesell
  
  as a Manga (Comic Strip from Japan). Text by Eiichi Morino, Drawings by kokiriko, English translation by Robert Mittelstaedt





• A Story Of Robinson Crusoe, by S. Gesell
  
  To introduce the theory of interest here expounded, and to facilitate the removal of old
  prejudices, which are nowhere stronger than in connection with the subject of interest,
  I shall begin with a story of Robinson Crusoe. *

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Activism & Politics

• ATTAC International
  
  nternational movement for democratic control of financial markets and their institutions





• Jubilee Aotearoa
  
  Debt Action Network. We are a network of agencies and individuals in New Zealand working
  together for the cancellation of the unjust and unpayable debts of poor countries.
  Jubilee Aotearoa is a local network but is linked to other Jubilee and debt campaigns
  in countries all around the world, poor and rich, south and north.





• NZ Democrates, New Zealand
  
  The NZ Democratic Party's aims are the furthering of social, environmental and economic
  justice for this country. In order to achieve these aims we advocate the use of practical,
  commonsense fiscal and monetary instruments which do not burden society with compounding
  debt - debt which eventually undermines efforts to build a better world.

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Newsletters And Mailing Lists

• Electronz
  The NZ monetary reform weekly
  e-zine ( edited by Don Bethune, QSM )





• Int'l Jrnl o Community Currency Research - Yahoo Group
  
  To provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community
  currencies (including 'money-based' systems such as LETS, 'time-based' systems such as time dollars, other
  scrip-based community exchanges, as well as business trade exchanges) being used throughout the world both
  at present and in the past.





• Archives of ECON-LETS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
  
  A mailing list on LETS and community currency issues.





• Prosperity - Freedom From Debt Slavery
  
  A monthly journal on Money Reform, based in Glasgow, Scotland
  which campaigns for publicly-created debt-free money.





• Mailing list on Social Credit
  
  Discussion group relating to the historical and theoretical aspects of the Social Credit movement.
  Seems also to be discussing interest-free banking issues.

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IT & Software

• World Wide Complementary Currency IT Department,
  
  Pick one of the tiki features (Articles, Forums, RSS, Banners, etc.) that you'd like
  to see in action and set up a best practice that we can all enjoy, learn from, and
  use on our next websites!





• Payment mechanisms
  designed for the Internet
  This is a collection of links and pointers to existing payment
  schemes that were designed for, or are in use on, the Internet.





• Timekeeper for Time Dollar
  Timekeeper
  for Time Dollar is a program for keeping member accounts for Time Dollar members
  and for matching Providers to Recipients. The program is free of charge.





• Contact Rob Spijkerman, in New Zealand
  who has created a
  version of Lets software written in MS Access that provides functional management of any LETS
  exchange/ green dollar exchange.- it is fully functional and supports all aspects of community
  trading.

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Links Pages

• Local and Interest-Free?
  Currencies, Social Credit and Microcredit
  
  This page of links to resources on microcredit systems, local and interest-free currencies is one of a
  number of pages on Money - Past, Present and Future maintained by Roy Davies.





• www.geldreform.de
  
  Page with links and resources, mainly in German, but also in several other languages including English.





• Information and Materials
  
  A large library of downloadable articles, etc. in .pdf and html format.





• BARTER/LETS 101
  
  A long list of links...

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